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Which shifting helps in finding the physical address in 8086?(a) shifting the segment by 8(b) shifting the segment by 6(c) shifting the segment by 4(d) shifting the segment by 2The question was posed to me during an interview.This interesting question is from Memory Organisation of Embedded Systems topic in chapter Memory Systems of Embedded Systems

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Correct OPTION is (c) shifting the SEGMENT by 4

Easy explanation: The ADDRESS BUS of the 8086 is 20-bit and the data bus is 16-bit in size. So the physical address can be calculated by shifting the segment register by 4 to left and by adding the address bus to it.



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